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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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The new CIO mandate: Selling AI to employees

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Just under half of those surveyed said they want their employers to offer training on AI-powered devices, and 46% want employers to create guidelines and policies about the use of AI-powered devices. Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

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If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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JLL reinvents itself for the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. According to JLL’s own research, so far in 2023, the range for physical occupancy compared to pre-COVID levels is between 45% to 65% in the US, for example.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

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(Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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6 generative AI hazards IT leaders should avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft called the poll an error and promised to investigate, but it already seems to clearly breach several of the company’s own principles of responsible AI usage , such as inform people that they’re interacting with an AI system, and guidelines for human-AI interaction.

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